Targeted Infusion Project: Spelman Skills & Habits for Aspiring Physicists & Engineers (SHAPE) Program

历史上的黑人学院和大学本科生计划（HBCU-UP）通过有针对性的输液项目支持开发，实施和研究以证据为基础的创新模式和方法，以提高HBCU本科生的准备和成功，使他们可以追求科学，技术，工程或数学（STEM）研究生课程和/或职业。Spelman Skills Habits for Aspiring Physicists Engineers（SHAPE）项目创建了一个夏桥计划，提供接触工具和内容，帮助物理学生在第一学年取得成功。在夏季的异步和面对面的活动相结合，旨在保持夏季队列和突出职业选择学年会议的补充。与大学水平的职业指导和社区支持工作，该项目将给学生信心，包括作为一个物理学家或工程师，他们的身份和抵制冒名顶替者综合症。研究人员将通过调查和访谈数据调查这些努力对学生身份，态度和自我效能感转变的影响。SHAPE计划的主要目标是：1）通过解决STEM/数学准备和包容性，增加非裔美国女性在斯佩尔曼学院攻读和获得物理和/或工程学位的人数，2）通过提供接触执业物理学家、工程师和校友的机会来展示物理和工程领域的职业生涯，以及3）培养柜台空间和实践社区（CoP），以使学生对科学和物理学身份的态度发生积极变化，正如调查所证明的那样，比如科罗拉多科学学习态度调查（C-LASS）和半结构化访谈。参与者将被邀请参加由物理教师设计的虚拟和面对面的活动，这些活动将侧重于科学思维和物理课程内容。混合方法将提供调查，访谈，分配和参与数据，以更好地了解SHAPE项目的哪些方面使参与者在学术上受益，同时肯定他们作为科学家的角色。这个项目的结果也将导致其他机构可以为历史上被边缘化的学生培养counterspaces的方式。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

The Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP) through Targeted Infusion Projects supports the development, implementation, and study of evidence-based, innovative models and approaches for improving the preparation and success of HBCU undergraduate students so that they may pursue science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) graduate programs and/or careers. The Spelman Skills & Habits for Aspiring Physicists & Engineers (SHAPE) project creates a summer bridge program providing exposure to tools, and content that will help physics students succeed in their first academic year. A combination of asynchronous and in-person activities in the summer are supplemented by academic year meetings designed to maintain the summer cohort and highlight career choices. Working with college-level career guidance and community support efforts, the project will give students confidence to include being a physicist or engineer to their identity and resist imposter syndrome. Researchers will investigate the effects of these efforts on shifts in student identity, attitude, and self-efficacy through survey and interview data.The main objectives of the SHAPE Program are to: 1) increase the number of African American females pursuing and obtaining a degree in Physics and/or Engineering at Spelman College by addressing STEM/Math readiness and inclusivity, 2) demonstrate careers in Physics and Engineering by providing access to practicing physicists, engineers, and alumna, and 3) cultivate counterspaces and a Community of Practice (CoP) to create positive changes in student attitudes toward science and identities in physics, as evidenced in surveys, like the Colorado Learning Attitudes about Science Survey (C-LASS), and semi-structured interviews. Participants will be invited to virtual and in-person activities designed by physics faculty members that will focus on scientific thinking and physics course content. A mixed-methods approach will provide survey, interview, assignment, and participation data to better understand what aspects of the SHAPE project benefit participant participants academically while affirming their role as a scientist. The results of this project will also lead to ways that other institutions can foster counterspaces for historically marginalized students.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.